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Tyrrells – Short Flat Vineyard, Hunter Valley Brent Hutton

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  • Tyrrells – Short Flat Vineyard, Hunter Valley

    Perched at 110 meters above sea level in New South Wales’ Hunter Valley, Tyrrells’ Short Flat Vineyard spans 12.51 hectares of sandy loam and red clay. Its vines – planted from 1923 to 2011 – average 50+ years of age, and thrive under Brent Hutton’s care. All own-rooted, the chardonnay, semillon, shiraz, and pinot noir vines planted here yield iconic wines: Tyrrells Vat 1 semillon, Vat 9 shiraz, Vat 47 chardonnay, and the shiraz component of Vat 8 shiraz cabernet. In a region of 150-plus wineries wrestling with humidity and heat (and the resulting disease pressure), Short Flat’s ancient vines and shifting soils craft wines of finesse – less brash than Barossa shiraz, subtler than Margaret River chardonnay, and genre-defining for Hunter semillon. It’s a dry-grown relic of a site, thriving on grit and guile.

  • Scarborough Wine Co. – Hermitage Road Vineyard, Hunter Valley

    The Scarborough Wine Co. has five vineyard sites in the Hunter Valley, with the Hermitage Road Vineyard acquired in 2007. The vineyard has been lovingly revitalised from the impacts of former owners’ conventional viticultural approaches by partners in life and vines Liz Riley and Jerome Scarborough.. Sustainability is the central pillar of the operation, with a push to close the loop on waste and increase biodiversity in and around the vineyard blocks. In the 18 years under their stewardship, the improvement in soil health and structure and the increase in fruit quality has been palpable. The vineyard supplies fruit for both the Scarborough Wine Co. and its Offshoots range, for which Jerome serves as the winemaker, as well as to some other producers.

  • Keith Tulloch Wine – Field of Mars Vineyard, Hunter Valley

    Field of Mars is the Keith Tulloch Wine home vineyard. Planted mostly to 40- to 50-year-old vines on alluvial soils in Pokolbin, it rubs shoulders with some of the Hunter’s most revered semillon sites. Sustainability is a key driver of the estate, from the farming to re-establishing native scrub to using only recycled packaging for their wine. The site is run by Alisdair Tulloch, operations manager and sustainability manager for Keith Tulloch Wines, who guides the growing of fruit for premium single block varietal wines from chardonnay, shiraz, viognier and semillon in the Field of Mars range.

  • Brokenwood – Graveyard Vineyard, Hunter Valley

    The Graveyard Vineyard is one of this country’s most significant. It’s mature enough, at a little over 50 years, though that’s not particularly old in this country’s oldest winegrowing region, the Hunter Valley. It’s significant for its history, with James Halliday prominent among the three solicitors that first planted it, with the first harvest ferried by Len Evans’ Bentley to the makeshift winery. And it’s significant for what followed, with the Brokenwood ‘Graveyard Vineyard’ Shiraz becoming one of the towering icons of Australian wine. Today, the vineyard has become solely focused on shiraz, with viticulturist Katrina Barry taking the baton of vineyard manager from her father, managing the site with sustainability as a core value.

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